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DARTMOOR NORMAL

... NORMAL. Normal routine, including the reading of news bulletins and the holding of religious services, was observed in Dartmoor Prison during the week-end. The hearing of the charges in Princetown Town Hall against 32 alleged mutineers wilt be resumed to-morrow ...

Published: Monday 21 March 1932
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 72 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Warder

... Warder A DARTMOOR prison officer is in a Plymouth hospital with a fractured skull after being attacked by a convict with a spade. George Dingley, a trainee °Meer from Birmingham, was suddenly hit on the head by a moody lone-wolf type as a party were ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1953
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 58 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MAN WHO FIGURED IN DARTMOOR • RIOTS

... MAN WHO FIGURED IN DARTMOOR • RIOTS A ticket-of-leave man who was, slated to have been concerned in the Dartmoor Prison riots in 1932 was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour, at the Staffordshire Quarter Sessions yesterday, for shop-breaking ...

Published: Thursday 18 June 1936
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 304 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CONVICT INJURED AT DARTMOOR

... INJURED AT DARTMOOR. Steel Dock Suggested for TRIAL DIFFICULTIES. Detail% leaked out yesterday of another incident at Dartmoor Prison. Two convicts. the Gazette learns, attacked, a day or two ago, a fellowprisoner who is stated to have broken a promise ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1932
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 63 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

COMMONS STATEMENT

... been established by statute for dealing (among other matters) with various prison offences. With regard to the future of Dartmoor Prison, the report called attention to certain serious disadvantages connected with the prison, including ...

Published: Tuesday 09 February 1932
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 73 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LICENCE FROM DARTMOOR

... LICENCE FROM DARTMOOR Inspector Smith Informed the Bench that Parker was on licence from Dartmoor Prison, having been sentenced to six years' penal servitude. He had recently been sentenced tt, six months' imprisonment at Tamworth for failing to report ...

Published: Wednesday 24 August 1932
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 71 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

LONDON WATCH

... seen. Bond. aged 32. was serving a five-year sentence imposed at Middlesex Sessions in 1953 for receiving. On Saturday a Dartmoor prison officer. Leslie Walton Abbott. of Princetovrn, was charged with helping him to escape and was remanded in custody till ...

Published: Monday 21 November 1955
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 71 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A DARTMOOR SECRET

... escape from Dartmoor with success, but he was not going to let then into the gim l et. Sir Basil was formerly Governor of Dartmoor Prison, and was for man years head of the Criminal Investigation Department. ...

Published: Friday 29 September 1922
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 79 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Bookmaker

... Bookmaker in the gaol DARTMOOR prison authorities have discovered a big betting school on horse racing among the 600 convicts in the gaol. For some time one of the convicts has acted as turf accountant. receiving bets in tobacco and paying out the convict ...

Published: Wednesday 26 August 1953
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 90 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NO APPEAL FOR MAN WHO WAS FREED. Counsel Urges Chance to Prove Innocence. JUDGE'S COMMENT. The Court of Criminal

... dismissed an application by Jacobus Peters Van Dyn, who was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude and released from Dartmoor Prison after he had served only six months, for leave to appeal against the conviction. Van Dyn was sentenced on a charge of ...

Published: Tuesday 26 January 1932
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 82 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR

... ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR. A convict named William Searle, twenty. °even years of age, escaped from Dartmoor Prison late yeeterday afternoon. He was out with a farm party, and got away un- noticed. A dense fog prevailed at the time. MUNICIPAL SCHOOL Or ART ...

Published: Tuesday 29 May 1906
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 82 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EXPECTED OUT TO-MORROW

... EXPECTED OUT TO-MORROW Dartmoor Convicts with Reduced Sentences It is understood that some of the 11 convicts at Dartmoor Prison, whose sentences have been reduced consequent upon their loyal behaviour during the mutiny there, will be released early to-morrow ...

Published: Wednesday 25 May 1932
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 95 | Page: 1 | Tags: none